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Anne McKinnell
 

Default bit depth in camera raw


I just upgraded to photoshop elements 9 (mac) and camera raw 6.2. When I open my raw file (.cs2) which is a 16 bit file, the default camera raw setting is showing 8. I think that means it is going to convert it to 8 unless I remember to change that drop down box back to 16 every time. How do I change the default camera raw settings so it defaults to 16? (Note: in the photoshop elements version I do not have some blue underlined text that people talk about)
Thank you! I am pulling my hair out trying to figure this out!
Anne.


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November 26, 2010

 
- Carlton Ward

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  Hi Anne,
I had the same thing happen when I upgraded from CS3 to CS5. I am still playing with preference settings but cant sem to find the default setting for opening my tif files in 16 bit ???
Hope someone else chimes in here about what we can do :)
Carlton


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November 27, 2010

 

Rainer and Simone Hoffmann
  Hi Anne, Hi Carlton,

I'm not familiar with camera raw in PS Elements. In the camera raw version that ships with PS CS however, when you change the default settings for bit depth and color space etc. you have to click "done" or "open image". Only then will camera raw remember that you changed the settings. Personally I think this is a bug, but it's been like this since the first version of camera raw.

Hope this helps.

Rainer


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November 30, 2010

 
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